Yesterday’s article was written giving instructions on how to back up all your email accounts using some pretty simple techniques. In the end, Thunderbird was the agent that we used to grab all the email from our gateway account. Today, I’d like to show you how we can accomplish the same thing with a different [...]
Backup Your Gmail With… Gmail Backup
November 5th, 2008 · Comments Off
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How To Use Gmail as an Email Backup Service
November 4th, 2008 · Comments Off
With recent horror stories of Google users getting locked out of their accounts floating around the Internet, it makes you reconsider putting so much trust in Google. A lot of people have all their eggs in the Google basket, but they could too be locked out at any given time. Gmail could also go down [...]
Tags: Computers & Tech · How-To
Google Alerts, RSS Style
October 31st, 2008 · Comments Off
Yesterday Google allowed users to subscribe to their alerts via an RSS feed instead of email. I prefer this option as my RSS reader is open almost all day and I like to know about things as they happen. Sure, that was always available for the email notice too, but RSS is so much easier.
To [...]
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Creating a Fluid-Based Google Reader App
September 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off
For Mac OS X: I’ve been looking for a solution to feed my addiction to Google Reader without having to go the the website every time. There’s an AIR application called ReadAIR, but I didn’t like it very much. I really like the usability of the Reader interface, so I would be hard-pressed to use [...]
Noise Filtering on Google Search Results
August 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you’ve ever searched for your website content on Google (and chances are you have), you’ll agree with me that it can be difficult to find your material amongst the results. Sometimes I search for my posts and see where they rank in specific queries to Google. Usually it takes me a [...]
Tags: Firefox
Optimize Google Reader for Wide Screens
July 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Firefox only
I recently heard (via Lifehacker) of this GreaseMonkey script that will optimize your Google Reader window to fill 100% of the available horizontal space. This works not only for wide screens, but for standard screens as well. In my experience, Reader doesn’t maximize its horizontal space by default, but this script modifies [...]
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Website Stat Trackers
July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off
Everyone who runs a website should be keeping track of the number of visitors they have. There are many tools that allows people to do this. WordPress, for example, has a built-in tool that gives you information such as page views, referrers, top posts, clicks (links clicked on your blog), and incoming links. [...]
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